Character That Stands

I need to be honest.

I've preached that the Lord pulls us out of our comfort zone.

It's a growing thing. 

I understand this. 

Right now I just don't know why it has to be so much on one thing.


~CHARACTER~

I'm not even really feeling like I'm being tested on my character but yet maybe...

I feeling like I'm being tested on my stand.

I feel like my whole family is being tested on their stand.

It's hard.

Standing...Not hard. 

Let's make that clear...We are happy to stand for what we believe is right.

As we stand we are seeing so much ugliness.

So many people talk of what they know nothing about.

My daughter has a cartoon about a rumor weed. 

It talks about the fact that this weed has a striking resemblance 
to everybody else...
even looking helpful but in fact, these weeds are 
interconnected and multiply at an alarming rate being fed by 
chatter and rumors. 
 In the cartoon, no one even cares to notice until they 
see that their town is 
crumbling down around them. 

 It’s really better to think the best about a person or situation 

until you find out from 
that 
person the truth.  

“When people talk, Listen completely. Most people never listen.”  

- Ernest Hemingway

A few weeks back a friend was telling me about something happen 
to another friend.

This friend told me things that sounded a bit off from 
what I know of my other friend.

I didn't let it bother me.
 I just said that it didn't sound like her at all.

Why didn't it bother me?

 b/c I didn't hear it from her and it had nothing to do with me.

I let it go in one ear and out the other. 

I knew that I could ask my friend to clear it up for me the next time I spoke to her.

Here's the thing. 

When someone is talking to you about someone else, do you say, 

"boy, that doesn't sound like 'so and so'?" 

You should!

If you know the character of that person and you have a spine...


yes I went there.

You should not let the rumor weed feed into your mind.

It doesn't mean you have to start a fight but is doesn't mean you 

can't stop it in it's tracks for you.


~BECAUSE CHARACTER STANDS~

When you know lies are being told right under nose...and the best thing you know to do

is stay quiet...All you can do is trust that


~CHARACTER STANDS~

When you know that people just don't understand what is happening 

and you're trying your best to do so much right...all you can do is trust that


~CHARACTER STANDS~

When your kids lose friends because people pull them away and tell sad lies...

All you can tell them is to trust that...


~CHARACTER STANDS~

Character stands...it will always come through.  

The lack of character will always come through also.

It has been very sad to see in a very trying season of my life. 

During this season, 
I've had to pull back from many of the things I usually do daily to stay sane...


some understand...
some don't. 

Emotionally most see a strong woman. 

Thanks to God I can hold it together but I have my moments after I see

my kids deal with ugliness...after they've done all they can...

After I've strengthen them with 
mommy power:)

That's when God knows....and he gives me the little things:)

Yesterday it was Levi's sweet sincere Thank you 

for teaching him after a long struggle in Math.

Today a sweet friend that I never see posted that I...:)

silly ol' me was an inspiration and she was sure I was to others. 

And then the Lord whispered....


Character stands...
it stand tall...

so stand firm no matter what!

How humbled I was this morning. 
I very much don't feel like

someones inspiration...
I feel like I am just waiting with my character 

and standing...

waiting for truth to be seen!

Unwind:

I guess I sound downcast today.  I'm not.  I have a heavy heart and yet a light heart...it's really a mix. I'm tired of lack of character...I'm tired of blindness.

I will rest and unwind in standing with character.